The Chess Clock Debates

A show for people who love good debates on divisive issues by serious people but think moderators just get in the way. We put interesting people on opposite sides of table separated only by a chess clock. We let them introduce the subject. We let them introduce each other. We give them equal time, and then we let them have at it.

Should the United States arm Ukraine in its fight against Vladimir Putin's Russia? Kori Schake--former National Security Council, Defense Department, and State Department staffer and a fellow at the Hoover Institution--argues that we should. Ryan Evans, founder of the War on the Rocks web site, says no.

This week, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. Congress against the will of the White House and to objection of many Democrats. Whose fault is the faltering relationship between the United States and its closest Middle Eastern ally? Natan Sachs of the Brookings Institution argues that Bibi is to blame. David Hazony of the Israel Project puts the blame on Barack Obama.